Kitten eyes not opening

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My cat had 9 kittens about 2 weeks ago. All of them are opening their eyes. Except for one. He is a big boy, he was the first kitten out, one of the biggest kittens. And I'm alittle concerned because everyone else has started opening, even the tiniest ones. is this normal? Or something to be concerned about.
 

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My cat had 9 kittens about 2 weeks ago. All of them are opening their eyes. Except for one. He is a big boy, he was the first kitten out, one of the biggest kittens. And I'm alittle concerned because everyone else has started opening, even the tiniest ones. is this normal? Or something to be concerned about.
Its in part individual, some are early some may be late.

Unless you see clear traces of pus...  Sometimes the pus isnt flowing out, but building up a pressure inside...   If its so, contact your vet asap.

If not, its just to wait a couple of days more.

Please report how it went!

Im also not so little impressed, 9 babies and apparently everything is well, no runt problem??
 
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Yes. She had 9 babies. She has 9 nipples. In the beginning I was switching it up so that everyone got a fair chance at a nipple, even though there was one for every one of them. There was a runt problem. One kitten passed. He was the smallest one. The last one out. He was very tiny. He would suck on a nipple, and I did make sure he was getting enough milk, and the other bigger ones wernt getting in the way, but he was very tiny, I don't know why, but he didn't make it. 3 days after she had them we had to bury him. There us no ring problem now though. Every single one is doing great.
 
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I keep trying to add pictures but it's not letting me.
 

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The picture from my camera are too big, so I use paint to make them smaller and then they load.

I'm sorry you lost one of the kittens.  If it was so much smaller it may have been premature.
 
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